Red Hat OpenShift Review
Software Version
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)
Modules Used
- OpenShift Data Foundation
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift Container platform gives us a container orchestration platform for modernizing our legacy applications to run in containers. The Kubernetes platform is what gives us the container-based flexibility, scalability, and adaptability that we need to move our legacy apps to a more modern and sustainable state.
- Scales very well.
- It provides you with a landing pad to modernize what you have in a phased approach so you don't have to do it all at once, right? You can take small pieces of work and implement those on OpenShift over time. It enables us to be able to implement things like GI ops configuration as a service, and infrastructure as a service using the tools that are native to OpenShift, which gives us far greater reliability and consistency as far as monitoring for any kind of drift and configuration or unauthorized changes. So it pretty much gives us a lot of visibility on things that are otherwise relatively difficult to see using the old means of doing what we do. So it provides us with a modern set of tools to accomplish all those objectives.
- I think the easiest answer to that question is OpenShift as a platform. I don't know that I would necessarily say that I have any real complaints. However, as far as the architecture that it sits on to run, it's still very much so focused on X86-based computing architecture. And in our case, we're using both X 86 computing architecture and S3 90 computing architecture on the mainframe. And OpenShift as a whole in general is slightly slower and behind pace as far as making things compatible or workable on S3 90 as opposed to X 86. So that's kind of true of the entire Kubernetes marketplace in general. So it's not just an OpenShift problem, but it's still a pain point for us because it puts us in a position where we're having to wait on things on the one hand that we might not have to wait on for the other computer architectures. So to have them moving in parallel would be nice.
- It's had a very positive impact in that It's giving us a very good working example of what we can do as far as modernization is concerned. So whether they're talking about modernizing apps or modernizing workflows, processes, modernizing the way we monitor our systems or capture metrics, now that we have OpenShift and it's actually working, it's up and running, it's a live platform, we can actually show it. We can actually produce the data, produce the metrics, produce the dashboards, and demonstrate in reality as opposed to just speaking of it hypothetically.
- Docker and Podman.io
We've done work on Docker and we've done work in Podman, which aren't really apples to apples as far as OpenShift because they're just purely containerization tools. They're not necessarily platforms. We did an evaluation on a tool, another Kubernetes-based tool, and I don't even remember the name of it. I cannot think of the name of this tool. It's a VMware tool. I don't remember. They have a Kubernetes solution that they offer. But as far as the features, functionality, and cost of ownership, OpenShift outshines those others that we've looked at. So it seems to be the market leader.
Do you think Red Hat OpenShift delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Red Hat OpenShift's feature set?
Yes
Did Red Hat OpenShift live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?
Yes